John Shelby Spong Quotes

I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to capture the essence of a God experience that they believe they had with Jesus of Nazareth.

John Shelby Spong

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GodBestExperienceBelieveThink

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

Jimmy Buffett

TechnologyAgeHateTelevisionCome

I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.

John Gutfreund

MyselfKingPeopleThoughtYouWant

I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.

Robert Mundell

GoodPlaceWashingtonRightStudy

Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

Amanda Lindhout

WorldStoryImportantSomaliaNeeded

Change your routine regularly because your body gets used it, and it won't benefit you after a while. Mix it up - legs, arms and butt - so you work your total body and stay balanced.

Stella Maxwell

WorkChangeYouBodyRoutineLegs

Playing in the Premier League, in front of such crowds and on such perfect pitches, is amazing. I am so lucky.

Riyad Mahrez

I AmAmazingPerfectLuckyPlaying

It's such an obedient way to be for a woman, to try to keep yourself in top shape, to follow all the rules and hope that will get you a measure of stability or happiness. That's part of the affluent suburban dream: to do everything perfectly in a long-winded way, to try to fulfill all the requirements.

Robin Weigert

HappinessHopeWomanYourselfYou

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Roman Jakobson

LightLanguageSpeechUnderstood

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Rowan Atkinson

FunnyConfidenceSimpleCreative

Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.

Marvin Ammori

TechnologyTodayGivingSecretary

They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

Luc Montagnier

SkyBluePeopleWorldCountryNow

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

Josephus Daniels

HeroGameWillLastLikeWhom

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